About this title: From the author of "Burger Wuss" comes a book filled with identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.
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Description: Very Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 299 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Excellent Condition. No Remainder Mark, No Damage, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Ship twice daily. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 299 p. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Candlewick Pr, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780763622596ISBN:0763622591
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps; 299 Pages; Textblock is tight and clean with no internal markings. Cover is bright with modest shelf wear and no creasing to spine. Another great read. read more
Edition: Audio Book edition
Binding: Audiobook (cassette)
Publisher: Listening Library
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807216538ISBN:0807216534
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. In plastic hardshell case. Case graphic insert has a clipped corner, tapes great. Unabridged; 3 cassettes; 5 hours 1 minute; narrated by David Aaron Baker.; read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Candlewick
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780763622596ISBN:0763622591
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Candlewick Pr
Date Published: 2004-02-01
ISBN-13:9780763622596ISBN:0763622591
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780763622596. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780763617264ISBN:0763617261
Description: Very good. Great book! Light shelf wear & small crinkle on dj, tiny mark on edge. Amazon: This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are drive. read more
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press, Cambridge MA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780763617264ISBN:0763617261
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Pretty decent copy with a remainder line to bottom edge. read more
Edition: Audio Book edition
Binding: Audiobook (CD)
Publisher: Listening Library
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807217733ISBN:0807217735
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. In plastic hardshell case. Discs, storage case in good condition, one disc is an OEM replacement. Unabridged; Includes ALL 5 discs; narrated by Baker, David Aaron.; read more
"Separated into four sections, this futuristic story follows Titus and his friends as they travel to the Moon to party at a nightclub, meet Violet, and live their lives connected to the Feed. In the future, nearly all humans have a transmitter implanted in their heads that provide a constant feed of information, not unlike having a ticker tape constantly running. The Feed also allows them to look up information on the spot, and to converse without spoken words, much like instant messaging. After a strange event at a nightclub, Violet and Titus begin dating. Titus soon finds that her points of view tend to be unique from the norm. Violet openly challenges the Feed by purposefully trying to confuse it. She also has a habit of saying socially inappropriate things to Titus's friends. She encourages Titus to fight against the Feed. Eventually her Feed becomes defective, causing her to be disconnected from Titus, and the rest of the world. Although Titus sees her goal of challenging the norm, and truly loves Violet, he's not sure he can break away from the Feed.
At first I was very opposed to the language of this book. I didn't enjoy trying to figure out the "new" words Anderson had created. But as I read further, it became much less obtrusive. The story itself deals with important topics like conformity, thinking for oneself, challenging the norm, love, and independence. Anderson handles them all by providing a character whose internal monologue is blunt and honest. The reader sees all of his internal struggle without censoring. The book illustrates Titus's struggles with peer pressure and his quest to fit in, even as he can fully appreciate Violet's goal of identity independent of the feed. I think that all teens can relate to these issues in some way.
I ended up liking this book a lot, even though I didn't think that I would. I'm not usually much of a science fiction fan, but this book was written incredibly well. The book forces the reader consider the prevalence of media and pre-fabricated information. Even if this seems to be an ambitious goal for a YA book, it succeeds. I absolutely recommend reading it."
"Perhaps the most impressive thing about M.T. Anderson's 'Feed' is the author's ability to write in a teenager's voice. The slang used in the book is often hard to get around, but it always makes sense--in context. Some ideas in the book may not be explained to every reader's tastes, but we must realize that the narrator, since he is a teenager in a very futuristic world which is much altered from our own, does not--should not--feel the "need" to describe everything that he thinks everyone should already know.
The main character is more than a character--he is human with human problems, feelings, disappointments, and embarassments. If we don't necessarily love this character, we might at least come away feeling like he's more like ourselves than we thought.
An often chilling criticism of our increasingly wired culture, 'Feed' may be the cautionary tale we all need."
"This book was recommended by one of my library school classmates. One of the topics we talk about quite often in classes is the future of information. How will it be stored and in what format? Are books on their way to extinction (this topic in particular is a favorite)? What is the best way to convey information to each other? One article we read discussed the idea that in the future we will not have text, we will only have images. The same article also discussed the idea of libraries storing not only images, but also smells and sounds as well. It's all very vague to me. The book format has been around for thousands of years, despite all the leaps and bounds we've made in technology. I don't really foresee people snuggling up with an e-book when they want to unwind at the end of the day. It all seems very Fahrenheit 451 to talk about doing away with printed press.
So, back to "Feed". It's a sci-fi book about people having a live feed implanted in their heads. The feed tells them anything they want to know at any time (like the Internet in your head.) They watch tv through the feed, they shop through it, they get bombarded by commercials. Non-stop noise in your head, tailored to your personal wants and needs. Naturally, when their feed is turned off they feel isolated and insanely bored. Also, somewhat reminiscent of "Idiocracy", every one is becoming stupid and unable to articulate themselves well because they never need to learn anything. They can instantly look it up if they run across something they don't know. It's an interesting book, but it has a lot (A LOT) of cussing which is hard for me to stomach, and also gives me a reason not to recommend it to my friends. Many f-bombs."
"Feed, by M.T. Anderson, is a young adult novel that Village Knittiot let me borrow. Set in a future time that is strangely very close to the here and now, Feed is about people who have their brains interconnected directly into television and the internet. Almost everyone has them (you must be too poor to not afford a feed) and they let you chat without speaking. They also banner you with things you might want to buy, make personal histories of what you do buy, and motivate you to buy more, similar, things.
The story starts on the moon, where Titus and his friends go for spring break. They have thier own cliches and their own lingo.. so it takes about a chapter or 2 to get into how they speak, but suddenly you are feeling just as bannered by the feed as they do. They meet a girl who seems not quite like them and they take her to a club where things go haywire. Their feeds get hacked. You find out that the new character, Violet, got her feed later that Titus' friends. Because of the late feed and the hacking incident her feed is beyond repair.
But Violet is not like Titus' friends in other ways. Home schooled, she actually reads for fun. She researches things that School(TM) does not teach. ("They teach us to buy things, and to know that corporations are not just out for your money, but made up of individual people." completely paraphrased.. but close enough.) She is an outsider to Titus' friends. Always wanting to be like them, but in reality she can see what they cannot. That they are just people focused on the feed. Focused on the next big cool thing. Focused on themselves more and more, and on the world less and less.
At the heart of this story is a teenage love story. Boy meets girl who is so different than himself and he is drawn to her. He likes that she thinks differently. He likes that she is independent. But things get hard when she starts relying on him to help her with the loss of her feed. He wants things to be what he considers normal. She shows him that the feed just isn't normal.
This story was one that made me sad simply b'c it is so close to what could really happen. Parents were not people who had a wealth of knowledge and experiences behind them so they can help their kids. They are just as hooked on the feed and they simply buy their son a car so he can get over the tragedy of being hacked. The only parent that cares about Violet's feed shutting down and turning off her body is her father- who does not have a feed and did not want her to ever get one anyway.
It is true that having a feed would simply be a good way to be able to access information every moment of the day. But then you see the implications.. how it is interconnected into how the body works, how the corporations would run how you think, that I am glad we don't have something like this yet. Corporations do run so many aspects of our lives that I am glad I can shut them off when I go home, or turn off the tv and sit and knit. I can chose not to be a part of the maze of inter-connectivity if I want. I can make a nice dinner, talk with my partner, and make things with my hands.
This was a good book. It reminded me in some ways of Stargirl by Spinelli. A girl who is nothing like the rest. And how one boy is torn between liking her, or being a part of his group of friends. I won't say that Feed has a happy ending, but I felt the ending was realistic and gave you plenty to think about. I know that when Sue was done reading it yesterday, her first words were "Would you get a feed?""
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